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US Soldier, 3 Georgian Soldiers Killed By a Roadside Bombs, 28 Iraqis Killed, 20 Injured by US Forces in Sadr City, According to Initial May 3, 2008 News Reports
Editor's Note: Yaqen.net reported the following news: - A child was killed by a landmine in Khanaqin. - 12 policemen were killed by US forces in Al-Qaem. - A child was killed, two others were injured by a mortar landing on a Shurqat neighborhood. Amsi.org reported the following news: - 3 Georgian soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb. - A US soldier was killed yesterday east of Baghdad. - Two US Hummer vehicles were destroyed near Samarra juncture today, with death and injury of their crews. The Iraq News Agency (INA) reported that many of the vehicles destroyed in US forces bombardment of Sadr City belonged to Sadr City Hospital. It also published the following photo showing destroyed ambulances and confirming the VOI news below.
U.S. army says 8 gunmen killed in eastern Baghdad Baghdad - Voices of Iraq Saturday , 03 /05 /2008 Time 6:59:06 Baghdad, May 3, (VOI) – Eight gunmen were killed in clashes in around the eastern Baghdad district of Sadr City, the U.S. army in Iraq said on Saturday. "U.S. and Iraqi army patrols in Sadr City and its adjacent areas clashed with a number of gunmen on Friday evening, killing eight of them," according to a U.S. army statement received by Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI). Earlier on Saturday, a health official said twenty patients and workers in al-Sadr Hospital were wounded and 49 civilian and ambulance vehicles were damaged when U.S. warplanes opened fire at the hospital. "The attack on the hospital, considered the main one in the eastern Baghdad district of Sadr City, left 20 patients and workers wounded and 40 civilian vehicles and nine ambulances damaged," Qassem Abdul-Hadi, the al-Rasafa health department media director, told VOI. Al-Sadr and Imam Ali hospital receive people killed and wounded in the clashes occurring nearly on a daily basis. Sadr City, a stronghold of Shi'i leader Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militias, has been witnessing armed clashes since US-backed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced last month the commencement of a security operation in the port city of Basra, Iraq's second largest province and an oil-hub, 590 km south of Baghdad, which he said targeted "outlaws." Hundreds of Sadr supporters were killed or wounded in intense fighting, which still continues. AE 20 wounded, 49 vehicles damaged in U.S.
attack on Sadr Hospital Twenty patients and workers in al-Sadr Hospital
were wounded and 49 civilian and ambulance vehicles were damaged when
U.S. warplanes opened fire at the hospital on Saturday, a health
official said. Sadr City, a stronghold of Shi'i leader Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militias, has been witnessing armed clashes since the US-backed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced last month the commencement of a security operation codenamed Saulat al-Forsan (Knights' Assault) in the port city of Basra, Iraq's second largest province and an oil-hub, 590 km south of Baghdad, which he said targeted "outlaws." Hundreds of Sadr supporters were killed or
wounded in intense fighting, which still continues. Al-Qaeda fighters hold military parades in Diala Diala - Voices of Iraq Saturday , 03 /05 /2008 Time 6:59:06 Diala, May3, (VOI) - Clad in black, brandishing weapons and raising anti-government slogans, 300 al-Qaeda in Iraq fighters on Saturday held a parade in Diala, a security source said. They held a military parade inside al-Asiwa village of al-Saadiya district, 155 km north-east of Ba'aqouba, a security source from Diala province, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). The source pointed out “300 al-Qaeda fighters bearing light and medium weapons drove with 50 pick-up vehicles in the village street.” He added “the fighters were clad in black and raised billbords calling to punish policemen, army servicemen, and government public servicemen.” Earlier, the province of Diala saw similiar parades in al-Gatoon neighbourhood in Ba'aqouba and al-Asri neighbourhood in al-Muqdadia town over the past 4 years, but the fighters’ sway was diminishing after U.S.-backed Iraqi troops launched attacks to clamp down on the violence pervading the mixed ethnicities province. Ba'aqouba, the capital city of Diala, lies 57 km north-east of Baghdad. AM/SR Roadside bombing kills 2 Georgian servicemen in Diala Diala - Voices of Iraq Saturday , 03 /05 /2008 Time 7:50:33 Baghdad, May 3, (VOI) - Georgian Defense Ministry on Saturday said a roadside bombing killed two of its servicemen in Diala. “Two soldiers from Infantry 13th Brigade of peace keeping operations in Iraq were killed by a roadside explosion in Diala on Friday,” said Georgian Defense Ministry statement released on the Ministry's official Web site. Georgia has 2,000 soldiers stationed across Iraqi cities and districts to man checkpoints and monitor borders. Ba'aqouba, the capital city of Diala province, lies 57 km north-east of Baghdad AM/SR Communist Party
official assassinated in Sa'adiya An official of the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP)'s
local committee was assassinated by a group of gunmen in al-Sa'adiya
area, south of the district of Khanaqin, 155 km northeast of Ba'aqouba,
on Saturday, a committee member said. Also in Khanaqin, a six-year-old child was killed when an improvised explosive device went off near a house in Al-Shurta neighborhood, Maj. Ahmed Haqqi, the official in charge of the Khanaqin's investigations office, said. Ba'aqouba, the capital of Diala province, lies
57 km northeast of Baghdad. 14 killed,
25 wounded in one day of clashes in Sadr City The Sadr and Imam Ali hospitals received 14 bodies and 25 others wounded in armed clashes in Sadr City, eastern Baghdad, during the past 24 hours, medics from the district's two main hospitals said on Saturday. "The Imam Ali Hospital received 14 martyrs and 23 others wounded during the period between 8:00 a.m. on Friday and 8:00 a.m. on Saturday," a hospital source told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI). Another source from the Sadr Hospital said the
facility has received only two wounded people. "U.S. and Iraqi army patrols in Sadr City and its adjacent areas clashed with a number of gunmen on Friday evening, killing eight of them," according to a U.S. army statement received by VOI. A health official said twenty patients and workers in al-Sadr Hospital were wounded and 49 civilian and ambulance vehicles were damaged when U.S. warplanes opened fire at the hospital. "The attack on the hospital, considered the main one in the eastern Baghdad district of Sadr City, left 20 patients and workers wounded and 40 civilian vehicles and nine ambulances damaged," Qassem Abdul-Hadi, the al-Rasafa health department media director, told VOI. Al-Sadr and Imam Ali hospitals receive people killed and wounded in the clashes occurring nearly on a daily basis. Sadr City, a stronghold of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militias, has been witnessing armed clashes since Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced last month the commencement of a security operation codenamed Saulat al-Forsan (Knights' Assault) in the port city of Basra, Iraq's second largest province and an oil-hub, 590 km south of Baghdad, which he said targeted "outlaws." Hundreds of Sadr supporters were killed or
wounded in intense fighting, which still continues. Iraq War Report for events of Friday, 2 May 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad
Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.
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